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99 - SEALED TERRACOTTA AMPHORA
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SEALED TERRACOTTA AMPHORA Workshop known as ‘Navigius’, 290–320 AD A bottle with a cylindrical body and moulded relief decoration on the middle and lower registers, depicting hunting scenes of horsemen galloping in pursuit of wild boars and lions, accompanied by a pack of dogs attacking hares. The upper register features the goddess Venus accompanied by two Cupids and the huntress goddess Diana. On the opposite side, this same register depicts a Bacchic thiasos comprising two satyrs and a maenad, as well as Dionysus, the god of intoxication. On the shoulder, the workshop mark ‘NAIGIUS’ and ‘NAVIGIUS’ is stamped in relief. Restorations. Height: 27.5 cm Provenance: Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 November 2001: lot 281 (ill.) Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 December 2005: lot 385 (ill.) Royal-Athena Galleries, New York Christian Levett Collection, Mougins Museum of Classical Art, acquired in 2008 Exhibitions: Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA105) The Roman Army: Power and Glory, Musée de l’Arles Antique, Arles, France, 15 December 2018 – 22 April 2019 Bibliography: Tajan, Egyptian, Oriental, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Archaeology, Prehistory and National Art, Paris, 13 November 2001, lot 281 Tajan, Archaeology Auction, Paris, 15 December 2005, lot 385 J.M. Eisenberg, *Art of the Ancient World*, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2007, vol. XVIII, p. 64, lot 151 M. Eiland, ‘Materials and manufacture’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 169, fig. 22 Katia Schörle, The Roman Army: Power and Glory, SilvanaEditorale, 2019, p. 208 A Roman terra sigillata amphora, Navigius workshop, 290–320 AD
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